Improvement in car wheels and axles



B. A. BERRY MAN. Car-Wheel and Axle.

.7 Patented Jan. 25,1975;

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BAYARD A. BERRYMAN, or ST; LOUIS, MISSOURI, assrenon oFoNE-HALI HIS RIGHT To GEORGE W. snAW, or SAME PLACE.

mpaovslvlsm lhl CAR WHEELS AND AXLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,145, dated January 26, 1875; application filed September 2:2, 1874.

To all whom it may concern: hub. This inner part, G, is provided with an Be it known that I, BAYARD A. BERRY- internal annular flange, G, which is confined MAN, of St. Louis, St. Louis county, Missouri, between the fixed collars H I of the axle A. have invented a certain newand nset'ul Im- The inner one, II, of said collars may be in pro'vement in Car Wheels and Axles, of which one piece with the axle A. The other one, I, the following, is a specification is removable, and isfirmly secured upon the In this invention the axle has the usual axle, by screws or other means, after the part vertical. movement in the pedestal that takes G is placed in position on the axle, and beplace in the compression of the springs, but fore the main part of the hub and wheel are dices not'rotate, the wheel rotating upon the placed upon the axle. J is a flanged nut, axle like that of an ordinary wagon. The screwing onto the end of the axle outside the hub of the wheel is made in two parts, the hub 1*, and against which the end of the hub inner part screwing, onto a neckof the main abuts. K is a cap, screwing onto the outer or outer part of the hub.. The inner part end or neck L of the hub. has an interior annular flange, which fits be- The purpose of this cap is to form with the tween two stationary .collars on the axle, to hub a close chamber, L, to receive an y oil eshold the wheel in proper position on the-axle. caping from the axle-bearing, and to prevent Que-of said collars (the inner one) may be in the entrance of dust. one piece with the axle, butthe other is se-' The chamber L may be emptied or filled cured in position upon the axle by'screws with oil through the oil-holes, closed by screwafter the inner part of the hub has been caps l. placed upou the axle, and before the outer M is an oil-receptacle, placed between the part of the hub and wheel have been con spokes of the wheel, and held in place bencctcd to the inner part ofthe hub. ,The tween the said spokes by the screw-pipe an, axle, at its outer end, is screw-threaded for which passes through the hub to the axle, the reception of a flanged nut, against which and constitutes the oil-duct. This-screw-pipe abuts the outer end of the hub. On the outer has a right-anddeft-hand screw, screwing reend of the hub is a screw-cap, to form an oilspectivcly into the receptacle and the hub, so chamber, and to prevent the entrance ofdust that 'by turning the pipe the receptacle is into the bearings. This oil-chamber prevents drawn tightly between the spokes. N is an the escape. of oil from the bearings. One or annular chamber, which receives any surplus more closed oil-cups are supported between on from the spindle-bearing, and furnishes it the spokes, and connected to the hub by a to the hearing as required.

screw-threaded: pipe, as shown. Between the The part Ur of the hub is'prevented from main. or central part. of the hub and the inunscrewing from the main part F by screws g.

, or part of the same isan annular oiLcham- I claim asnuiinvention" fuel, surrounding, tlle axlespnidle to form an 1. The combination of the axle, with'fixed oiLrcservoir. collar Hand removable collar 1, and thehub In Figure 1' the upper. halt is in diametric F, with inward extension G, having an intesection, and. the lower half in sideelevation. rior' flange, G, held between the collars H lltigrz is a frontview. all substantially as set forth.

A isthe:caIt-axle,..havingisquare lugs B, by a 2. In combination witlithe hub'F and the t which it is: guided. in the pedestal G; and oilreservuirhhthe right and-left hand threadwhichalso give-bearingto the springs I). E ed pipe m; to draw and hold thereeeptacle or vin ra: can-wheehztlie; main part of the hub. F reservoir imposition between-tlie'sp'okesof' which: has an inwardlyprojecting: screw- 3. The hub F, provided with annular re threagled neck, F,' on which. screws a ring,.G, ceptacle N, substantially as and for the 'purforming the inner part or. extension of the pose sett'crth.

4. The car-wheel E, hub F, extension G G, filacedbetween the wheel-spokes,substantially and oil-chambers M N, in combination with' as described. the axle A, collars II I, and cap K, substa r ltially as set forth.

5. The removable oil -receptacle M, eom- Witnesses: munieating with the car-axle by pipe provided SAML. KNIGHT, with right and left hand screw-threads, and ROBERT BURNS.

BAYARD A. BERRYMAN. 

